Portable stove



March 22, 1927. 1,622,176

I w. T. BISHOP PORTABLE STOVE Filed June 18, 1926 Patented Mar. 22, 1927.

WILLIAM T. BISHOP, OFHENDER-SON, TENNESSEE.

PORTABLE STQVE.

Application filed .TnneiS, 1926. Serial No. 116,904.

Thisinvention relates to, an improvement.

in portable stoves.

The object of the invention is to provide a portable stove which is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and may be. easily made of convenient size and light weight toallow, it to be transported without. difficulty.

The stove is made with the bottom thereof 1 open so as. to rest upon the ground, and is provided with a circular center. supporting structure, the size of which maybe adjusted; to receive kettlesor vessels of varyingsize, andextending laterally from oneside of this supporting center portion is the; fire-box of the stove,- which has a, sliding door at the outer end thereof for the purpose of regulating the draft. A lever pivotally mounted upon the fire-box is provided to enter a notch in the side of the sliding door to hold the door in an adjusted position. Extending laterally and upwardly from the opposite side of the circular center portion from the fire-box is a flue for the purpose of carrying off the smoke. The circular supporting structure and fire-box are open in the bottom to be seated upon the ground, thus reducing the weight of the stove and utilizing the ground as the bottom thereof.

The whole stove may be made of sheetmetal or similar light material, if desired, for the purpose of decreasing the weight thereof.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the stove;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with a part broken away;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the stove on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4; is a side elevation of the door.

As clearly shown in Fig. 1, the center supporting structure is formed of sheet-metal having the ends 2 and 3 thereof overlapped at one side of this center portion. Secured to the end 3 at the outer edge thereof are upper and lower hooks 4c in position to be hooked into one of the notches 5 provided in the end 2 of the circular center portion 1 for the purpose of adjusting the diameter of this supporting structure.

The center portion 1 of the stove has a cut out opening 6 in the lower edge of one side thereof, from which opening a flange 7 is bent outwardly. A substantially rectangular fire-box 8 is secured in the opening 6, and has the flanges 9 secured to the inside of the supporting,structure; 1, as clearly shown; in F 1g; 3, while the flange issecured; tothe outside of; said fire-box. The bottom, and:-

outer endofgthe-fire-box- 8 are open, as-.shown;

in Fig. 3, and the, top 10 of'the fire-boxhas,

an; elongated slot 11 therein; which; receives. thesl ding door 12'forclosing the outer end; of the fire-boxwhjen desired. llhe door 12;

has a plurality of notches 131 in an edge thereof for receiving; thehandle: 14th pivoted at 15 to the; top 1 O of;-the,firebox; The handle; l lengages one ofthe notches 13,to-. hold, the door in a raised; position; for the purpose of; regul ating the draft-through the fire-box, Rods-1 6 are sccured in the bottom of the outer end of thefire-box for thepurpose ofsupporting the Wood or-simil'arfuel. Secured; to the center supporting section. 1. on a side opposite from the opening 6 is a substantially L-shaped flue 17 which extends outwardly and upwardly from this center portion for receiving and carrying off the smoke created by theburning of the fuel in the fire-box.

As shown in Fig. 3, the bottoms of the center supporting section 1 and the fire-box 8 are open so as to be seated directly upon the ground. The center section 1 may be adjusted to any size desired by means of the hooks 4 and openings 5 to receive kettles or vessels of different sizes. The fuel is placed within the fire-box 8 and the door 12 left partly open in order to create a draft through the fire-box and center section 1, the smoke passing off through a flue 17 The amount of draft desired may be regulated by means of the lever 14 which enters one of the holes 13 for this purpose. The handle 18 is formed on the upper end of the door 12 for the purpose of raising the same.

I claim:

1. A portable stove having a substantially cylindrical center portion having open ends, means for adjusting the respective diameters of the upper and lower ends, a fire-box extending laterally from said center portion and communicating with the interior thereof, a door slidably connected with the outer end of the fire-box, and having notches in the edge thereof, a lever pivotally mounted upon the fire-box in position to engage the notches, and a flue connected with the center portion.

2. A portable stove having a center {portion, a fire box extending laterally rom said center portion, said fire box having closed sides and top and an open bottom, the top of said firebox having a slot formed therein adjacent its outer end, a door slidably mounted in said slot, and havin a plurality of notches formed in an e ge thereof, and a lever pivotally mounted upon the top of the firebox in position to engage the notches in the door.

3. A portable stove having a substantially cylindrical center portion having open ends, a fire-box extending laterally from said center portion, said firebox having the bottom thereof open, a door slidably connected with the outer end of the fire-box and having notches formed on the edge thereof, and a lever pivotally mounted on the fire-box in position to engage the notches.

4:. A portable stove having a substantially cylindrical center portion having normally open top and bottom, the bottom of said center portion having an enlarged notch formed in a side thereof, a flange bent out- Wardly from the upper edge of said notch, a firebox mounted in said enlarged notch and extending laterally from the center portion and having closed top and sides and an open bottom, the bottom of said firebox being in the same horizontal plane with the bottom of the center portion, and flanges bent laterally from the inner end of the firebox and secured about the inner edges of the center portion, the outturned flange of the center ortionbeing secured to the top of the fireox.

5. A portable stove having the center portion thereof formed of a strip of material bent into a substantially cylindrical shape with the edges thereof overlapping, means for holding said edges in an adjusted position, a flue extending laterally from said center portion, the top and bottom of said center portion being normally open to be closed by a support and receptacle, a fire box extending laterally from the cylindrical center portion and having closed top and sides and an open bottom', supporting rods extending transversely of the firebox adjacent the outerend thereof, a door slidably mounted at said outer end of the fire-- box, and means for holding said door in an ad usted position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM r. BISHOP. 

